Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Look How They Grow

I can't believe how quickly my BFL/Shetland cross lambs are growing. They have doubled in size and are eating hay and creep already. One guy unfortunately has split his ear and lost his tag, but doesn't seemed to be bothered by it at all. I only had one shetland ewe lamb born this year and she is a stunner. It is nice that she ended up a bottle lamb as she will be very friendly. My last lamb is also a bottle baby, but only part-time. His mom has decided that she likes him after all and allows him to nurse. However she is a little short of milk from not nursing for so long, that he needs a supplement. It has been raining so much here that our fields are flooded and I haven't been able to let anyone out yet. Hopefully the field will be almost worm free by the time the girls do get out. A new load of hay came on the weekend, so they are set for a while. Enjoy the pics.

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From my interests in fibre, I have met many other shepherds and all of our goals are to raise happy healthy animals that give us lovely fibre to spin. I have been working over the past few years to increase the softness and fineness of my shetland sheep while maintaining the breed standard of a well built hardy self sufficient animal that grows well and has few problems at lambing time. I am starting to see the fruits of my labour pay off this year and have been able to launch a line of shetland wool products called HOPEFUL SHETLAND, all from my own animals.